Jason Barr is KGUN-TV's sports director and anchor, and he appears regularly on KGUN newscasts.
TUCSON, Ariz. — It was last Thursday when San Xavier Little League president Letty Montero opened a storage shed at Manzanita Park to find it empty: $6,000 worth of new equipment had been stolen, as well as sentimental items.
Twenty-three teams, including the defending state champion senior boys, were relying on the equipment for practice that begins later this week.Montero believes it happened during an electrical outage last Wednesday night.Montero filed a police report and began to ask the community for help.So far, approximately $10,000 have been donated. Southwest Tucson wasn't going to let its kids not have the gear that they need for the upcoming season.
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